22 December 2014

Global Warming : Ninette

Ice

Melting

Sea rising

Polar bears on

Brim of extinction

Global warming

Raising fangs

Thawing

Ice

The
Ninette is a form that uses nine lines. Each line increases by one syllable
until the middle line, (five syllables) after which the syllable count in the
lines following goes back down from four to one. The first and last words of
this poem can be 1) the same 2) antonyms or 3) synonyms.